Surveillance and password cracking: 10 important stories from this week

Think your network's safe? Read some of our best stories from last week first.

Networks are critical to just about everything we do in tech, and keeping those networks safe and working is a topic that got a lot of attention this week. Ars wrote about the ubiquity of tools that let users hack into WiFi networks, the low overhead on Internet surveillance, and why you just can't seem to connect to WiFi at major sporting events. The entertainment industry is also finding that it will live or die by how it defines its relationships to networks: HBO announced that it would bring a streaming-only service to European cord-cutters, and Ars took an in-depth look at how video streaming has been constrained by copyright law.

Check these 10 stories out if you didn't catch them earlier this week!

In today's world, police state are the most concerning topic among bloggers. The title "Surveillance and password cracking" gets the most attention it can get. If it weren't for this title, I wouldn't have clicked on it and would have missed out all the goodies. Now I gotta do lots of readings that might taken me days to read.